Terry Goddard, Arizona's do-nothing Attorney General, responds

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>>> "***************" **************@************* 12/11/05 3:28 PM >>>
My friend is a political prisoner jailed in the
Arizona State Prison in Tucson.

Every month the Aryan Brotherhood forces him to pay a
1 stamp tax.

He also says that the Aryan Brotherhood makes a lot of
extra rules in addition to the rules in the prison.
For example, you're not allowed to sit down next to a
person who is a different race than you.
Another odd thing is he says each cell block has an
Aryan Brotherhood coordinator who reviews all the
paperwork that he gives to the prison officials. He
says this is to prevent people from snitching on the
Aryan Brotherhood.

Last the Aryan Brotherhood was holding an raffle for a
porn magazine. He refused to pay one stamp entry fee.

[Actually it was a two-stamp entry fee. It always makes
me laugh. These people wear Swastika tatoos and spout
white pride, yet they spend their time poisoning their
own race with narcotics and promoting pornography. If
they had lived in Nazi Germany and done such things, they
would have ended up more or less where they were: prison.
--Kevin Walsh]

Later an Aryan Brotherhood member told him it was
mandatory to participate.

[This particular Aryan Brotherhood member wasn't even
white. He looked like a Mexican or a Native American.
His name was Kenneth Curtis, and he was doing four
months for a probation violation. --Kevin Walsh]

He refused, and now he is
afraid something bad will happen as a result of this.

[My cellmate said that he might be ordered to beat
me up and that if he was, he would do it. That's when
I concluded he was a completely anti-social piece of shit.
Nothing came of it, however. No action was taken against
me. --Kevin Walsh]

He also mentioned that one person in his cell block
may get beaten up as a result of a cocaine debt.

[That was the above-mentioned Kenneth Curtis. --Kevin Walsh]

My question to the attorney general is can you stop
these criminal practices? And why do you let this
nonsense go on in the state prison?

If you're a reporter, I have a whole bunch of letters
that he has written me documenting this stuff. Maybe
you could write a story on it.

Is he being rehabilated? No. He is locked in a cell 23
hours a day like the other convicts. Of course he
doesn't really need it. He has a master's degree in
meteorolgy from the U of A and almost got his PhD, but
that is very unusual. Most of the inmates don't have
grade school or high school degrees and probably would
be much better if they got some education instead of
being locked down for 23 hours a day.

Why is he in jail? When a Republican telephone
solicitor called him and asked his family to vote for
Bush he said he "wished Bush were dead". The Secrect
Service had the Phoenix Police lock him up in Desert
Vista mental hospital for that and said he was insane.

After the Secret Service lost interest in him being a
threat to the president, he was charged with resisting
arrest and jailed in the Maricopa County Jail and
after waiting for a trial for about a year he took a
plea bargin which will get him out in 6 months instead
of facing the 21 years going to trial could have
gotten him.

Thanks

[I was never charged with resisting arrest, although my
lawyer said that was a potential charge on which I could
plea-bargain. I was initially charged with three counts
of assaulting a peace officer with a deadly weapon, and
the maximum sentence I could have faced if convicted of
those counts was 63 years, not 21. --Kevin Walsh]